Russia was built into a world power by...
A. Fredrick the Great
B. Catherine the Great
C. Ramses the Great
D. Charles II
2007-09-07 08:19:56 · 7 answers · asked by t.lo17 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Moe A is quite right, of course.
Except that Catherine wasn't Russian, either. She was Prussian.
"born as Sophie Augusta Frederica (Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, nicknamed "Figchen") a minor German princess in Stettin
"Catherine's father, Christian August, Prince of Assnhalt-Zerbreast, held the rank of a Prussian general in his capacity as Governor of the city of Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland) in the name of the king of Prussia."
Princess Sophie spared no effort to ingratiate herself not only with the Empress Elizabeth, but with her husband and with the Russian people. She applied herself to learning the Russian language with such zeal that she rose at night and walked about her bedroom barefoot repeating her lessons. This resulted in a severe attack of pneumonia in March 1744. When she wrote her memoirs she represented herself as having made up her mind when she came to Russia to do whatever seemed necessary, and to profess to believe whatever required of her, in order to become qualified to wear the crown. The consistency of her character throughout life makes it highly probable that even at the age of fifteen she possessed sufficient maturity to adopt this worldly-wise line of conduct.
Her father, a very devout Lutheran, strongly opposed his daughter's conversion. Despite his instructions, on June 28, 1744 the Russian Orthodox Church received her as a member with the name Catherine (Yekaterina or Ekaterina) Alexeyevna. On the following day the formal betrothal took place, and Catherine married the Grand Duke Peter on August 21, 1745 at St Petersburg. The newlyweds settled in the palace of Oranienbaum, which would remain the residence of the "young court" for 16 years.
2007-09-07 08:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
B Catherine The Great
2007-09-11 14:59:22 · answer #2 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Russian in this list is B. Catherine the Great
2007-09-07 15:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Michael J 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
b........she is often considered to have been an enlighted despot.... .....
fredrick the great was Prussian(like catherine) Prussia in modern times this is the areas of countries Germany and Poland etc.
Charles II likely and english or a spanish monarch
Ramses was i think a Pharaoh in egypt
2007-09-07 15:52:45 · answer #4 · answered by suesue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh. Mein. Gott.!!!! You must be retarded or something!!
B. Catherine the Great!! IDIOTS!! The others weren't even Russian!
SJ
2007-09-07 15:36:31 · answer #5 · answered by Moe A 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
a or b ramses was egyptian and charles was english
2007-09-07 15:31:15 · answer #6 · answered by sshueman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a or b dont sound resonable and C was something in egypt so D. charles II
2007-09-07 15:26:51 · answer #7 · answered by King Werewolf 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋